Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-09
MIS- VIGIL REWARDED.
what Charles E. Ramsey DiscoVereo
After a Six.Hour Vigil at His
Wife,s Bedroom Window.
Domestic Infdeiity of the Most shame
ful Description--The Guilty Pair
Caught In Their
Perf1dy.

case of marital infdelity came to Ilgnt
in South Butte last Saturday night which
will form the grounds OF a divorce case
with decidedly sensational features. Chas.
E. Ramsey is a partner in the firm running
the Grand Central Hotel in Anaconda ana
bis wife conducts the Colorado House III
South Butte. For some time past ne mas
entertained suspicious OF his w'ies ndehoy
and not without cause as the sequel proves.
Among the boarders at the Colorado
House is a gay young Lothario who has
been boarding with Mrs. Ramsey Tor quite
A. while and at present owes a round sum
for board. Several times has Mr.. Ramsey
asked his wife why the bill Was ho1
settled but she always had an excuse
Several other things coming to his ears Mr..
Ramsey determined to
SETTLE HIS SUSPICION
for good, and with this end in view he
came up to South Butte or Saturday
evening. Without announcing his inten-
tons to any one, he proceeded in the course
of the evening to a barn from which he
could observe his wife's bedroom. There
he remained six hours. when his lonely vigil
was rewarded about the dead OF night by
seeing a figure creep cautiously up to the
window in question and tap lightly on the
pane. Presently the window was raised
and the man admitted within. Ramsey
went softly to another part OF the building
where two men cooks were sleeping. Them
he awakened without disturbance and was
admitted to the house by them. He &C.
all three proceeded to the door OF his wife's
chamber. He
BURST THE DOOR OPEN
with a kick. A light was burning dimly in
the room which he raised. Turning to his
wife, who was in bed, he inquired what was
going on there. She denied that there was
anything unusual the matter, aud ex
pressed surprise at his actions. Ramsey's
eagle eye observed a foot p%rotruding from
the bed clothes, and without more ado he
seized it and drew forth her guilty compan
ion. This confirmation OF his suspicious
so epraged Mr.. Ramsey that he grasped
his revolver, and was about to enact q
first.class tragedy then and there. when the
two cooks. who we're eye witnesses, inter
ftred and persuaded him not to shoot
| What further transpired there is immater
ial. Yesterday the Anaconda hotel-keeper
| came up to Butte and unfolded the facts tC
an attorney, who will to-day begin pro
ceedings for a divorce from the unfaithfu
wife, who will be cast off by her outraged
husband. The latter was formerly in the
restaurant business in Amsterdam, New
York, and the following clipping from g
paper published there will show What III
has already endured from his Messalina o
a wife:
DOMESTIC INFIDELITY.
On Saturday last G. E. Ramsey, one o
the proprietors of the Delmonico restan'
rant, in this city. disposed Of his interest
in the restaurant to his nephew, E. D
Ramsey, and left town. The cause OF hi
sudden departure was having detected hi
| wife in an act of domestic infdelity. i
seems that he had been suspicious for SOM
time past that she was on terms OF init
macy with Frank Parmentier, a well
known young nan about town ant
one of the recently elected constables or
the Democratic ticket. On Friday nigh
Ramsey noticed his wife engaged in writing
a letter. She mailed it the next morning
Ramsey followed her to the Post Office
! and asked one of the clerks to give him tn
letter his wife had just mailed. stating tina
he himself had mailed it by mistake. TIL
letter was given to him and heimmediately
| opened 1T and read it, discovering proof
that
CONFIRMED HIS Suspicious
of his wife's infidelity. He was so chagrinet
at his discovery that he Immediately dis
posed of his share Of the restaurant, packed
up his personal effects and left for parts
unknown. In opening the letter addressed
to ParmeItier. Ramsey committed a serious
offence against the postal laws, which
would render him liable, should anyone
choose to prosecute him, to a long term O.
Imprisonment. 1t is not likely, however
that he will be prosecuted. Mrs. Ramsey
remains in town. The restaurant will con.
tinue to be conducted by E. ID. Ramsey,
who will pay all bills OF the late firm. c.
E. Ramsey was well liked about town. He
was one of the founders OF the 'Del-
monico," and appears to have been a
worthy His friends do not blame
him for the course he has taken. He ia not
likely to return to Amsterdam.